Back in the game

I don’t like bloggers making excuses or apologies for absences, but as I haven’t posted in over a month, I do think a quick explanation is warranted.

I do most of my writing on the corporate dime. The company I work for requires me at my desk for around forty hours a week, but gives me far fewer hours worth of work to do. This usually gives me ample time to muse in writing about games, correspond with friends, and read.

Periodically, though, it just gets busy! December usually works out that way. In the weeks leading up to the end of the year, panic about fiscal statements and rushed sales result in longer, more work-filled hours.

I could, of course, write blog posts at home, but since this busy time at work coincided with the holidays, there was little enough time at home to sit around writing about games. Family and friends—and my very absorbing participation in musical theater—consumed most of the remaining hours.

That said, I do have lots to chatter about regarding games in the coming weeks, and I look forward to putting some of my thoughts into writing.

After all, though I didn’t get to write about games, a fair amount of the family and friend time did involve playing them. I’ve tried a bunch of new board games and several new video games, and I’ve started reading a couple of new tabletop RPG books. I got to experience more of the wonderful world of toddler gaming (earlier posts on the subject: 1, 2, 3, 4), this time with some commercial products.  And when everyone was off to bed and I couldn’t sleep, I even found time for a few digital adventures in online worlds.

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